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CASE STUDY
Navin AGM materials, is fuming and fretting. He bumped into Kiran, GM Materials, threw the resignation letter on his table, shouted and walked out of the room swiftly.Navin has reason for his sudden outburst. He has been driven to the wall. Perhaps details of the story will tell the reasons for Navin's bile and why he put in his papers, barely four months after he took up his assignment.
The year was 2005 when Navin quit the prestigious Sail plant at Mumbai. As a manager material Navin enjoyed the power. He could even place an order for materials worth Rs 25 lakh. He needed nobody's prior approval.Navin joined a pulp making plant located at Pune as AGM Materials. The plant is owned by a prestigious business house in India. Obviously perks, designation and reputation of the conglomerate lured Navin away from the public sector.
When he joined the pulp making company, little did Navin realize that he needed prior approval to place an order for materials worth Rs 12 lakhs. He had presumed that he had the authority to place an order by himself worth half the amount of what he used to do at the mega steel maker. He placed the order material arrived, were received, accepted and used up in the plant.Trouble started when the bill for Rs 12 lakh came from vendor. The accounts department withheld payment for the reason that the bill was not endorsed by Kiran. Kiran rushed to sign the bill as his approval was not taken by Navin before placing the order.Navin felt fumigated and cheated. A brief encounter with Kiran only aggravated the problem. Navin was curtly told that he should have known company rules before venturing. Navin decided to quit the company.
Q1) Does the company have an orientation programmer?
Q2) If yes how effective is it?
Q3) how is formal Orientation programmer conducted?
Q4) If you were Navin what would have you done?
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